As a customer, allow me to speak to a vendor. Just because I buy a product from you, that certainly does NOT form a relationship, no more than a hand shake makes me your friend. If I want info from your company, I'll ask for it. Otherwise, leave me alone.
To be blunt, your attitude is that of a spammer, though you may not realize it nor actually participate in the sending of spam.
Yes, I run a business as well. The attitude you display has nothing to do with running a business, it is rather a poor excuse to make a buck, and, IMNSHO is what is wrong with America today.
See quotes such as:
"The customer is always right, even when they're wrong".
Customers are the life-blood of any business, keeping them happy is the key to success of any business. Respecting them as persons is a good start.
As others have said, the machine is running SCSI and UltraSCSI at that. However, they are still only running one drive, which limits the throughput and certainly doesn't take advantage of that nice fat SCSI pipe.
The Ultrastar 36lp is also a 7200 rpm drive with a 6.8 access time. Can you say ssslllloww? Gimmie a Seagate 15K ST336752LC any day.
*buzz* Replace Microsoft with the US Government and I'd agree with that statement. Microsoft (the corporate creature) is doing exactly what it's supposed to do: make buttloads of money. To expect it to pursue anything else requires training, training requires discipline, discipline requires PAIN.
Until the Government decides to teach the creature, how can you really expect it to change its ways?
And tell me, how many of them go complaining back to the shop saying how they hate the goddam computer because the operating system sucks ass?
They don't go back to the company, they go to their neighbors, friends and family members. And believe me, they most certainly do complain. See this ear? My hearing is down 50% from all the Windoze sucks comments I get in that ear.
The users already had this Nirvana, is was called a "dumb terminal". You could get all your work done and flip the thing off, no problem. There were these guys down the hall that kept things working nice and smooth. No worries.
Been there, done that.
Further, I used to work for a company where we maintained our own 300 endpoint telephone switch. Always more than one way to skin the cat.
No one is talking about Sourceforge, has everyone already moved away from Sourceforge? The clock is ticking, the whole schbang is not going to live for much longer, those who depend on Sourceforge are in for a rude awakening.
Sounds like a good time to make sure all the offsite backups are in good order to me.
Ok, let's do it. We'll rename the crime from "vandalism" to "terrorism". The inept government STILL won't be able to catch them, so what's that harm?
Hmm, Microsoft has been thumbing their noses at government for years. They release software that they KNOW doesn't work and causes users lots of grief. By this new definition, wouldn't Microsoft qualify as terrorists? And since its retroactive, we can put them in jail! Yeah, that's the ticket!
I think that nature of the problem with chess-playing programs not being AI is the way in which most of them work. Chess has a set number of possible combinations of moves, as hardware gets bigger/faster, it is possible to sort through more and more data in the same period of time, meaning one just needs a large library of moves to beat any human player.
Of course, many human players use this same strategy (memorize positions/openings), but cannot come close to the machine's ability to memorize. The human player cannot play mind games with the machine, putting them at a disadvantage (though note that the machine may seem to psych out human players!).
All this really says is that the ability to play chess well is not a RELIABLE measure of intelligence.
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As I said, Macs accessing a file share along with other operating systems is a PITA. Either you dump the metadata, making Mac people unhappy because they don't get their pretty little icons, or you use something like netatalk and friends to store the metadata in special directories. Which causes the file share to look cluttered with redundant files to those other OSes.
Yes, one configure the file share to filter out the metadata in theory, though it doesn't work out all that way in fact. I speak as someone who supports Mac clients connecting to file shares on a Solaris machine via netatalk.
In this connected world, cross platform file sharing is a requirement, not an option.
I find the CLI to be much faster, you specify the app you want and the data file in one command. Point and Click requires: Launch App; File->Open ; Find data file ; Phew, finally there!
I'd much rather do:
gimp pics_of_my_vacation/*.jpg &
As others have pointed out in comments about this article, the Mac Way sounds good at first. Yet there is the same problem in a different manner.
A file associates itself with the last application to open it. The common way to change this association is to manually open it in the target app again. Ick.
Personally, I find the Mac implementation of metadata horrible, especially when it comes to sharing files with other operating systems. Windows looks like a friendly playmate by comparision. Note that I am NOT a Windoze person.
I subscribe to the CLI way. If I want to open a file, I'd rather do it myself via a command line and specifiy exactly which app I want to use.
What's a better solution? A combination of the UNIX 'file' functionality and a small database handled by the window manager.
Some people never learn. Welcome to the ugly world of the 90/10 rule (90% of any given group are idiots). Cynical, yes. But all too true.
Myself, I've moved from sendmail to qmail and from BIND to djbdns. Yes, the license isn't "Open Source" the way distributions would like it to be, but it certainly is for me, the User.
IIS, is that the Insecure Internet Server I keep hearing about?
Have you been watching the new season (3.0)? It is much better this time around, more Bill Nye, no more Shawn whatshisface and the token babe is not that annoying. The new announcer is actually pretty funny at times and works well with Bill Dwyer.
Plus they actually bothered to give us the actual judges scores on some of the close fights, the Minion vs Orge match being a prime example.
I take it you are not referring to the recent Robot Wars: Extreme Warriors. This show is just lame. The whole idea of the house bots just rubs me the wrong way, not to mention humilating the losing robot. Blech!! Give me the Battlebox any day!
Carlo Bertocchin (you know, the guy who BUILT and FOUGHT the Biohazard) said after the match he had no problem with the result, Biohazard was pretty beat up anyway.
Biohazard was having trouble steering at the end, he had plenty of chances to flip Whyachi. It was a close, great fight and I think the result was correct.
The horror of seeing Biohazard's front armor ripped off is burned into my mind!
While I agree suddenly a lot of Mac people are "suddenly" interested in things Unix due to OS X, you're supporting my original point: It's not that people in general are excited about OS X, it's that MAC people are excited about OS X. The original poster's scope on "people" was much larger than really exists.
And I disgree that "it has interested a new crowd of people in Unix in a unobtrusive way". I've already seen many a development mailing list with people suddenly jumping in and saying "Help, can't get it to work on OS X!". Why they are having these problems is left as an exercise for the reader.:)
I really think you are spreading your "people" net way to wide. OS X is not even on my radar, I really couldn't care less what Apple is doing, and I "support" a group of MacOS users. Now Linux on the other hand, is the One True OS.:)
If anyone is getting excited, it's MacOS users who finely have a decent shot at a modern OS, without having to learn anything. Face it, most Mac people don't know what goes on in the box and don't want to know. "Just tell me where to click.":P
I'm sure consultants are interested; Mac people usually have money to burn and suddenly some Unix skills apply to OS X. Easy Money!!
Disclaimer: I was a Mac User in my college days. Thank Tux that is over!
I think a lot of folks focus on the CPU and forget all the other components.
I've got a G4 sitting here running LinuxPPC. It's not bad, until some I/O starts happening. Then things slow way down. IDE, SCSI, doesn't matter which device it is, interactive performance (no X, just console) goes down the tubes.
I'm not saying this is general of all the Apple stuff, but there is certainly more to a computer than just the CPU.
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As a customer, allow me to speak to a vendor. Just because I buy a product from you, that certainly does NOT form a relationship, no more than a hand shake makes me your friend. If I want info from your company, I'll ask for it. Otherwise, leave me alone.
To be blunt, your attitude is that of a spammer, though you may not realize it nor actually participate in the sending of spam.
Yes, I run a business as well. The attitude you display has nothing to do with running a business, it is rather a poor excuse to make a buck, and, IMNSHO is what is wrong with America today.
See quotes such as:
"The customer is always right, even when they're wrong".
Customers are the life-blood of any business, keeping them happy is the key to success of any business. Respecting them as persons is a good start.
As others have said, the machine is running SCSI and UltraSCSI at that. However, they are still only running one drive, which limits the throughput and certainly doesn't take advantage of that nice fat SCSI pipe.
The Ultrastar 36lp is also a 7200 rpm drive with a 6.8 access time. Can you say ssslllloww? Gimmie a Seagate 15K ST336752LC any day.
*buzz* Replace Microsoft with the US Government and I'd agree with that statement. Microsoft (the corporate creature) is doing exactly what it's supposed to do: make buttloads of money. To expect it to pursue anything else requires training, training requires discipline, discipline requires PAIN.
Until the Government decides to teach the creature, how can you really expect it to change its ways?
They don't go back to the company, they go to their neighbors, friends and family members. And believe me, they most certainly do complain. See this ear? My hearing is down 50% from all the Windoze sucks comments I get in that ear.
The users already had this Nirvana, is was called a "dumb terminal". You could get all your work done and flip the thing off, no problem. There were these guys down the hall that kept things working nice and smooth. No worries.
Been there, done that.
Further, I used to work for a company where we maintained our own 300 endpoint telephone switch. Always more than one way to skin the cat.
No one is talking about Sourceforge, has everyone already moved away from Sourceforge? The clock is ticking, the whole schbang is not going to live for much longer, those who depend on Sourceforge are in for a rude awakening.
Sounds like a good time to make sure all the offsite backups are in good order to me.
Personally, when a company has nothing better to do than change their name, that spells the end. I can see the meetings like I was there...
"We need to differentate ourselves and prevent consumer confusion. I know, let's change the company name, that should enhance our mind share!"
Fools. I'd sell what stock I have left, but it would cost me more to dump it then to just let it waste away like the crap it is.
The analogy to landrushes in the past is right on target here.
Ok, let's do it. We'll rename the crime from "vandalism" to "terrorism". The inept government STILL won't be able to catch them, so what's that harm?
Hmm, Microsoft has been thumbing their noses at government for years. They release software that they KNOW doesn't work and causes users lots of grief. By this new definition, wouldn't Microsoft qualify as terrorists? And since its retroactive, we can put them in jail! Yeah, that's the ticket!
I think that nature of the problem with chess-playing programs not being AI is the way in which most of them work. Chess has a set number of possible combinations of moves, as hardware gets bigger/faster, it is possible to sort through more and more data in the same period of time, meaning one just needs a large library of moves to beat any human player.
Of course, many human players use this same strategy (memorize positions/openings), but cannot come close to the machine's ability to memorize. The human player cannot play mind games with the machine, putting them at a disadvantage (though note that the machine may seem to psych out human players!).
All this really says is that the ability to play chess well is not a RELIABLE measure of intelligence.
You're thinking of linuxtoday.
As I said, Macs accessing a file share along with other operating systems is a PITA. Either you dump the metadata, making Mac people unhappy because they don't get their pretty little icons, or you use something like netatalk and friends to store the metadata in special directories. Which causes the file share to look cluttered with redundant files to those other OSes.
Yes, one configure the file share to filter out the metadata in theory, though it doesn't work out all that way in fact. I speak as someone who supports Mac clients connecting to file shares on a Solaris machine via netatalk.
In this connected world, cross platform file sharing is a requirement, not an option.
I find the CLI to be much faster, you specify the app you want and the data file in one command. Point and Click requires: Launch App; File->Open ; Find data file ; Phew, finally there!
I'd much rather do:
gimp pics_of_my_vacation/*.jpg &
As others have pointed out in comments about this article, the Mac Way sounds good at first. Yet there is the same problem in a different manner.
A file associates itself with the last application to open it. The common way to change this association is to manually open it in the target app again. Ick.
Personally, I find the Mac implementation of metadata horrible, especially when it comes to sharing files with other operating systems. Windows looks like a friendly playmate by comparision. Note that I am NOT a Windoze person.
I subscribe to the CLI way. If I want to open a file, I'd rather do it myself via a command line and specifiy exactly which app I want to use.
What's a better solution? A combination of the UNIX 'file' functionality and a small database handled by the window manager.
You do notice the use of the phrase "This isn't quite as elegant as the Mac approach" right?
Yet another Mac weenie trying to get press...
Some people never learn. Welcome to the ugly world of the 90/10 rule (90% of any given group are idiots). Cynical, yes. But all too true.
Myself, I've moved from sendmail to qmail and from BIND to djbdns. Yes, the license isn't "Open Source" the way distributions would like it to be, but it certainly is for me, the User.
IIS, is that the Insecure Internet Server I keep hearing about?
:)
This will most likely hurt the music vendor, not "the industry". Same applies for denying the charge on a credit card, the vendor pays, not EMI.
WorstBuy used to allow software returns, until it started costing them too much. The software vendors were not the ones setting the policy.
I haven't been part of the 99% for some time, so I'd like the industry to be honest on this.
Personally, I'll be avoiding certain labels from now on and I will be checking very carefully when (if) I buy.
Have you been watching the new season (3.0)? It is much better this time around, more Bill Nye, no more Shawn whatshisface and the token babe is not that annoying. The new announcer is actually pretty funny at times and works well with Bill Dwyer.
Plus they actually bothered to give us the actual judges scores on some of the close fights, the Minion vs Orge match being a prime example.
Biohazard! You shall not be forgotten!
I take it you are not referring to the recent Robot Wars: Extreme Warriors. This show is just lame. The whole idea of the house bots just rubs me the wrong way, not to mention humilating the losing robot. Blech!! Give me the Battlebox any day!
Roboforge is already here. ;)
Carlo Bertocchin (you know, the guy who BUILT and FOUGHT the Biohazard) said after the match he had no problem with the result, Biohazard was pretty beat up anyway.
Biohazard was having trouble steering at the end, he had plenty of chances to flip Whyachi. It was a close, great fight and I think the result was correct.
The horror of seeing Biohazard's front armor ripped off is burned into my mind!
While I agree suddenly a lot of Mac people are "suddenly" interested in things Unix due to OS X, you're supporting my original point: It's not that people in general are excited about OS X, it's that MAC people are excited about OS X. The original poster's scope on "people" was much larger than really exists.
And I disgree that "it has interested a new crowd of people in Unix in a unobtrusive way". I've already seen many a development mailing list with people suddenly jumping in and saying "Help, can't get it to work on OS X!". Why they are having these problems is left as an exercise for the reader. :)
I also know about BeOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, VAX, Solaris, Netware, QNX and Windoze. What's your point?
I really think you are spreading your "people" net way to wide. OS X is not even on my radar, I really couldn't care less what Apple is doing, and I "support" a group of MacOS users. Now Linux on the other hand, is the One True OS. :)
If anyone is getting excited, it's MacOS users who finely have a decent shot at a modern OS, without having to learn anything. Face it, most Mac people don't know what goes on in the box and don't want to know. "Just tell me where to click." :P
I'm sure consultants are interested; Mac people usually have money to burn and suddenly some Unix skills apply to OS X. Easy Money!!
Disclaimer: I was a Mac User in my college days. Thank Tux that is over!I think a lot of folks focus on the CPU and forget all the other components.
I've got a G4 sitting here running LinuxPPC. It's not bad, until some I/O starts happening. Then things slow way down. IDE, SCSI, doesn't matter which device it is, interactive performance (no X, just console) goes down the tubes.
I'm not saying this is general of all the Apple stuff, but there is certainly more to a computer than just the CPU.